Biography: John Hoyt |
Yale grad John Hoyt had been a history instructor, acting teacher and nightclub comedian before linking up with Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre in 1937. He remained with Welles until he joined the Army in 1945. After the war, the grey-haired,... more
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Tags: Sex Comedy Comedy Adult Parody/Spoof
Length: 78min
Produced during the short-lived "porno chic" period of the early to mid-'70s, Flesh Gordon was a (relatively) big-budget, adults-only parody of the Flash Gordon serials of the 1930s, boasting amusing special effects and some fine stop-motion animation...
Cast: Preston S. Foster
Tags: Science Fiction
Length: 82min
After a nuclear holocaust, a group of scientists travel to the future and find a world in tatters, where the human survivors must constantly defend themselves against mutated beasts. Upon seeing the future of the earth, the men would like to return to...
Cast: Michael Pate
Tags: Western Horror Hybrid Western Creature Film
Length: 79min
Dracula straps on a side-arm and goes West in this combination horror-Western movie. After a western town is terrorized by the gunslinging vampire, a brave preacher decides he must destroy him. The vampire has picked out an especially juicy victim,...
X: The Man with X-Ray Eyes (1963)
Cast: Roger Corman Ray Milland
Tags: Supernatural Thriller Science Fiction
Length: 76min
Dr. James Xavier (Ray Milland) is a brilliant but unorthodox researcher whose work with human sight has yielded an experimental chemical that may vastly increase the range of what we can see. Despite the misgivings and warnings of the two people...
Cast: Dick Foran Howard Duff
Tags: Western
Length: 74min
Shortly before committing himself to the TV sitcom Mr. Adams and Eve, Howard Duff starred in the dust-caked western Sierra Stranger. After rescuing Sonny Grover (Ed Kemmer) from a brutal beating, well-meaning Jess Collins (Duff) discovers that Sonny...
Riot in Juvenile Prison (1959)
Cast: Emil Newman
Tags: Prison Film Drama
Length: 71min
Conflicting views on how to handle juvenile delinquents are not convincingly brought across in this teen melodrama by Edward Cahn. Colonel Walton (John Hoyt) is the repressive head of an institution for young male juvenile delinquents. Responsibility...
Cast: John Banner
Tags: Romance Drama Political Drama
Length: 72min
This gripping drama uses archival footage combined with new footage to re-create the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. It is also the love story between a devout communist woman and the liberal son of a prominent professor. Because of their political...
Cast: Jesse White Anne Baxter John Hoyt Sterling Hayden
Tags: Film Noir Drama Thriller
Length: 83min
In this convoluted thriller a manipulative woman gets entangled in her own web of deceit. The story is set in Mexico, where an unlucky wanderer has come to fish. There he falls for a woman that he spied on the beach. She begs the drifter to murder her...
Cast: Marion Ross Walter Brennan William F. Claxton
Tags: Drama
Length: 80min
Prominent surgeon Walter Brennan comes to the conclusion that his talents are on loan from God. He retires from his lucrative practice and moves to a small town, there to donate his money to charitable religious causes. Brennan's avaricious family...
Cast: Lloyd Bridges
Tags: Drama
Length: 89min
Per its title, Wetbacks deals with the smuggling into the US of illegal Mexican aliens. The villains are played by John Hoyt and, of all people, Harold "The Great Gildersleeve" Peary. Hoping to smash Hoyt and Peary's smuggling operation is...
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